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There is a voiceover narration by the Rani Mukherjee character (a TV journo named Mira) while the opening credits roll, that contains the following statement: “Everybody is somebody in Delhi. Nobody is nobody.” The corollary to that sort of Orwellian equality, of course, is that some somebodies are more of a somebody than others. Jessica…
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To begin with, let me state that I am decidedly ambivalent about films that are open to interpretation. The line between an intelligent film that raises questions in the viewer’s mind and an overly metaphorical exercise in style that does not engage the viewer is pretty thin. Besides which, the more the ground shifts…
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Yes, real life got in the way. Yes, my New Year resolution is to write the odd blog post on the movies every now and then. Although, if this one goes the way of my other resolutions, you might as well stop visiting this blog for updates. (Assuming you still do, that is.) No, I…
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To be perfectly honest with you, I didn’t go in expecting to like Enthiran very much. Somehow, the idea of Shankar making a SciFi movie with Rajni didn’t set my pulse racing the way it might for a whole bunch of other people. Then I saw the robot that the scientist (Rajni) created in his…
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Okay, so I’m back from a lovely vacation in Tanzania (travelogue post later, if I do get round to writing it, that is). And what do I do by way of catching up on all that I’ve missed? Watch Salman Khan tear off his shirt by getting angry enough to make his biceps bulge involuntarily.…
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This weekend, I watched my first Kannada movie in a long time. For someone who has spent the better part of the last decade living in Bangalore and is something of a movie buff, this seems like a curious gap in the resume. Then again, I’ve managed to live here for so long without learning…
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The sweat comes first. Rivers of it, so that you’re drenched even before a single drop of rain falls on your head. And waterproof clothing doesn’t help, for obvious reasons. Then the rain comes anyway to finish the job. Then there are the bugs. Leeches, especially. Until recently, the only kind I had seen were…
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… that I didn’t put in or expand upon in my review, but deserve a post of their own. Spoilers beware! First, a little crib. Could’ve done with fewer references to the number 10. Dude, we get it, okay? The scene where Dev enters the hut where Ragini was kept, lets himself linger over the…
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Okay, so I watched Raavanan last night. Finally. When I look back on it today, what stays in mind are disconnected flashes of memory, each more picturesque than the last, but no common thread running through them. If you ask me what happens when I might fob you off with an RTFE (E for Epic,…
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I wrote this for the GE Global Research blog – Edison’s Desk. An excerpt: We go to the movies for a variety of reasons, not the least of which is vicarious wish fulfillment. For the more scientifically inclined among us, much of this aspect has to do with the cool gadgetry in the movies. It’s…
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